Railway-rail brace



(No Model.)

H. ELLIOT, Jr. RAILWAY RAIL BRAGE.

Patented May 26, 1896.

'mrnn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

HENRY ELLIOT, JR, or sTfLoUIs, MISSOUR RAILWAY-RAIL BRACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,982, dated May 26,1896.

Application filed February 26, 1896. Serial No. 580,824. emodeh) To allwhom, itmay concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY ELLIOT, J r., of

. the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have spikes.

invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Railway-Rail Braces, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this,specification.

My invention relates to that class of railway-rail braces such as areused by the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and illustrated by a blueprint deposited in the Patent Oflice about October 1, 1888, and such asare set forth in the Alkins patent, No. 365,222, dated June 21, 1887,and the XVeir and Partington patent, No, 407,753, dated July 23, 1889;and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fullydescribed, and pointedout in theclaims.

Figure I is a vertical transverse section of a rail and my improvedbrace; Fig. 11 is an "inverted perspective view of the brace. Fig.

III is an end view of the brace.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents an ordinary railway-rail, and 2one of the ties.-

3 represents my improved brace, and-4 the The brace has a flat bottom 5,that rests upon the tie, shoulders 6, that bear against the verticaledge of the base of the rail, inclined faces 7, that bear against thetop of the base of the rail, diverging sides 8, and a shoulder or head0, that fits beneath the head or tread of the rail.

The object of my invention is to provide such a brace with means thatwill prevent it from working horizontally away from the rail and withmeans that will cause it to be tight cned against the rail as the spikesare driven. The spikes have heretofore been depended upon to hold thesebraces; but the spikes in practice ne vcr fit the' holes accurately,thus allowing for some play to the braces, and, moreover, in time thespikes work loose in the tics, allowing the braces to shift laterally toa limited extent, which thus far destroys providing the lower, face ofeach brace with toes or projections 10, that are embedded in the tie, asshown in Fig. I, and which serve to keep the brace tight up against therail even should the spike not fit tight against the inner edges of thespike-holes in the brace. These toes or projections I prefer to form bybending down the metal that is displaced to form the spike-holes 11, asshown in Fig. II, so that the projections do not add to the cost of thebrace, for if these projections were not turned down they would beentirely removed in forming the spike-holes and would be mere scrap,without any commercial value. As

shown in the drawings, the projections are formed with chisel-shapedlower ends, the inclines being presented outwardly. The result of thisis that when the brace is placed in position with the projectionsrestingon the tie and the spikes are driven down, the projections will draw thebrace toward the rail, and when the spikes are fully driven and the baseof the brace brought down into contact withthe tie the shoulder 9 andthe inclines 7 will bear, respectively, in close and firm contact withthe tread and base of the rail.

I claim as my invention- 1. 'A rail-brace of the character described,having toes or projections extending downwardly from the bottom'thercof,said projec tions being formed with chisel-shaped ends, the inclines ofwhich are presented outwardly, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. A rail-brace of the character set forth, consisting of a flat bottom5, shoulders 6, inclined faces 7, diverging sides 8, head 9, andintegral projections 10 extending downwardly from the bottom of thebrace, substantially as set forth.

-' HENRY ELLIOT, JR.'

In presence of- V. FINLEY, 1 1. S. KNIGHT.

